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Robert ShrimsleyFinancial Times |
The tremulous response to both the Venezuela coup and his threats to Greenland reflects hard truths
Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography
Core goals for 2026 must be survival — to kill off Farage’s claim that only he can offer an alternative to Labour
Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market
Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support
She and Starmer remain torn between the convictions that got them into politics and economic principles
Starmer and Reeves should lean in to what the Budget reveals about this tax-and-spend government
Hypocrisy is a killer so don’t pass rules you can’t obey
For all Labour’s belated muscularity on race and migration, it is not the winning card
The King should lean in to this moment as a chance for reform — and a wise prime minister would be advising him to do so
Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes
Sweeping tax commitments are foolish in an unpredictable world but abandoning them would be corrosive to democracy
Farage’s path to power is strewn with landmines planted by his own side
Charlie Kirk’s deplorable murder has sent Republican hypocrisy on the subject rocketing
His challenges spring from unresolved tensions within his party and leadership
The case for Badenoch as leader was that she was charismatic and combative enough to win her party a hearing
Like it or not, the belief that mass immigration has gone too far is now mainstream
MPs Starmer exiled from Labour see the chance to ape Reform’s surge but the two sides are not symmetrical
The diplomatic objectives of recognising a Palestinian state are even less likely to succeed than the domestic political ones
The right is proving better at connecting what it depicts as disconnected liberal attitudes to the unfairness of society
A new class of imperilled white-collar workers could radically reshape British democracy
No party looks truly ready to confront tax-resistant voters with some hard questions
If the double act is no longer working, the core problem may not be Reeves
Retreat on welfare cuts would be an irrecoverable blow to the UK prime minister’s authority
Serious social issues, perceived and real, will not be fixed by supercharging racial grievance
We may look back ruefully on this government as one which did essential things but was unable to bank the political credit
This government inherited a mess but it also hobbled itself with tax pledges and a plan dependent on higher growth
With just five MPs, Reform UK is terrorising Westminster but holding a poll lead for four years isn’t easy
By opting for stealth radicalism and couching change in the rhetoric of the repairman, he sows confusion about his beliefs
Broken promises played midwife to Brexit and are capable of powering Reform — or a Conservative facsimile — into office
There may no longer be space for two major parties of the traditional middle after Reform’s disruption
Britain does not have a populist problem. It has an unpopularist problem
Nigel Farage’s party is bolstered by disillusionment in the country rather than its policies
An alliance between Reform UK and the Tories may be the final outcome but they must try to smash each other first
The US president’s tariffs on UK cars and other exports reveal the hollow promise of global Britain
It’s no accident that populists from France to Wisconsin seek to undermine faith in the judiciary
Prospect of reaching peak populism is an opportunity
In a world without US security guarantees, all other priorities must give way to defence
Labour will use the geopolitical crisis to defy its own members about the new priorities for a rearming economy
It’s not a terminal moral malaise that’s blighting the country, it’s an economic one
Attacks on attorney-general Lord Hermer illuminate a wider battle about how to defend UK interests
Keir Starmer’s style is too decorous to be seen as insurgent but that’s what the political moment calls for
This time around, the Trump victory comes as the UK is vulnerable to potent arguments from the right
The media tycoon is happy to spend to contain a scandal — including in his legal battle with a British royal
The instinct to over-intervene runs across the political spectrum
Online distortions obscure the true nature of public outrage — democracies must adapt to the age of X
Chatter about a Boris Johnson return illuminates the depth of the Conservative party’s funk
With growth at the heart of his policy platform, the prime minister is remarkably passive on the economy
The Tories fell short of their rhetoric — if the PM is following their path, he needs to learn why reform has failed in the past
Britain must relearn the art of the deal or risks being buffeted by big power politics
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